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Re:Half a million people watch me study on TikTok by Retric on Monday May 09, 2022 @06:21AM (#31312442)
The group you’re describing are still as you just said following someone else.

But even if you add a new group of early followers it also works in the other direction. Stuff most people do also stops being popular because of what the largest groups of follower’s decides to stop doing.

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Re:Half a million people watch me study on TikTok by LigmaYC on Monday May 09, 2022 @12:27PM (#31316181)
The largest group of followers "deciding" to "stop doing" something, is something that never happens automatically, they are always influenced by a pioneer.
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Re:Half a million people watch me study on TikTok by Retric on Monday May 09, 2022 @12:37PM (#31316338)
The question is which pioneer, there isn’t just a single person bucking any given trend.
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Re:Half a million people watch me study on TikTok by LigmaYC on Monday May 09, 2022 @10:09PM (#31322573)
Didn't claim there was a single pioneer bucking any given trend, I used plural in my previous replies to refer to pioneers as a whole.
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Re:Half a million people watch me study on TikTok by Retric on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @02:18AM (#31324049)
That’s not what I meant. I mean do people stop on day 1 with the 57th pioneer, or day 20,037 with the 847,529th pioneer, or keep going? That’s a choice and individual followers don’t make the same choice.
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Re:Half a million people watch me study on TikTok by LigmaYC on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @04:22PM (#31332161)
That's a choice individual followers have little say in, since they merely follow and have no say/influence on the followers as a whole.
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